WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Energy is canceling more than $7.5 billion in grants nationwide, including funding for research at Washington State University, an electrical grid project in Spokane and a billion-dollar effort to turn the Northwest into a hub of the hydrogen energy industry.

The move was first announced Wednesday by Russ Vought, director of the White House’s Office of Management and Budget, who called the grants “Green New Scam funding to fuel the Left’s climate agenda” in a post on X. The cuts almost exclusively target states run by Democrats, although the $1 billion federal investment in the Pacific Northwest Hydrogen Hub announced in October 2023 was set to create jobs in Montana along with Washington and Oregon.

The cuts came at the end of the first day of a gover

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